Thursday, July 20, 2017
House Unveils Budget That Balances, Achieves $9 Billion Surplus and Increases GDP to 2.6%
"The House Budget Committee unveiled its Building A Better America 2018 budget Tuesday, which is balanced and achieves a $9 billion surplus in 10 years and increases GDP growth to 2.6 percent.
"Our budget is one of sustainability, smaller government, stronger national security, and greater freedom for individuals," the committee states. "The status quo is unsustainable spending, higher deficits and debt, higher taxes, bigger government, and more federal control over the lives of Americans.""
Social Security And Medicare Are In Worse Shape Than You Think | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
Social Security And Medicare Are In Worse Shape Than You Think | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Pensions: Even in normal years, the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees' reports typically get overlooked.
This year is far from normal.
But the reports should be top of mind for anyone who cares about retirement security.
The Social Security report finds that the "trust fund" will run out of money in just 17 years.
The news only gets worse from there.
...And on a cash flow basis, Social Security is now losing money every year.
Last year it was $54 billion in the red.
In a decade the annual shortfall will reach $215 billion — after adjusting for inflation.
It's only by spending "interest" earned in the program's "trust fund" that Social Security can cover its current obligations.
But remember, the trust fund is comprised entirely of Treasury debt.
The federal government still has to borrow or raise taxes when the trust fund cashes in those bonds.
...Medicare's future is equally grim..."
"Pensions: Even in normal years, the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees' reports typically get overlooked.
This year is far from normal.
But the reports should be top of mind for anyone who cares about retirement security.The Social Security report finds that the "trust fund" will run out of money in just 17 years.
The news only gets worse from there.
...And on a cash flow basis, Social Security is now losing money every year.
Last year it was $54 billion in the red.
In a decade the annual shortfall will reach $215 billion — after adjusting for inflation.
It's only by spending "interest" earned in the program's "trust fund" that Social Security can cover its current obligations.
But remember, the trust fund is comprised entirely of Treasury debt.
The federal government still has to borrow or raise taxes when the trust fund cashes in those bonds.
...Medicare's future is equally grim..."
History for July 20
History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com
Francesco Petrarch 1304, Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 - Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest, Mike Ilitch 1929 - Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza franchises, owner of Detroit Red Wings
Chuck Daly 1933, Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers), Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) 1938 - Actress (From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause)
1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed.
1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. (Montana)
1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
1992 - Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.
1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
LIBERTY REVIEW
LIBERTY REVIEW:
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/07/july-19-2017-security-blanket-by-tammy.html
Denial wraps you in an imaginary
security blanket......
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/07/july-19-2017-security-blanket-by-tammy.html
Security Blanket
By Tammy Derouin
Today's main stream media is a joke.
They have abandoned their post as the seekers of truth. They once
exposed corruption and delivered an unbiased account of what was
happening in the world around us. What was once a race to uncover
the story has become a race to rewrite reality. The media has
willingly shackled itself to an all-powerful, controlling master.
They have become paid stooges, promoting Left-Wing propaganda while
protecting Left-Wing corruption.
The MSM has abused and destroyed the
public trust. When they abandoned the American people, opting
instead to pledge their loyalty to Left-Wing radicals or radicals in
general, they began to descend into darkness. Once trust is lost, it
is very difficult to get it back.
Sometimes it's difficult to admit that
you have been deceived. After all, you put your trust into these
organizations. For most of us, this has been a long term
relationship. We didn't just start paying attention yesterday. Most
of us have been watching and reading for years. Little by little
things began to change. We have witnessed the betrayal right before
our eyes. But even with so much evidence in plain sight, not everyone
is ready to accept the truth. So begins the stages that you must
work through to regain true reality.
National Enquirer: Hillary Clinton framed Trump on Russia | Daily Mail Online
National Enquirer: Hillary Clinton framed Trump on Russia | Daily Mail Online
National Enquirer releases 'exhaustive investigation' into 'evil Hillary Clinton' claiming she framed the Trump family over Russia and the Don Jr. meeting was a setup
National Enquirer releases 'exhaustive investigation' into 'evil Hillary Clinton' claiming she framed the Trump family over Russia and the Don Jr. meeting was a setup- The National Enquirer claims that Hillary Clinton and her supporters are trying to bring down the Trump family by making it seem that they colluded with Russians
- This was allegedly done with help from the group Fusion GPS according to the tabloid, who claims the Democratic party hired the company to get Trump dirt
- Fusion GPS is the same group that was allegedly responsible for putting together the dossier of Trump ties to Russia that was largely false or unproven
- The Enquirer claims that Fusion previously worked with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskyaya, and suggests she setup the meeting with Don Jr as a trap
- 'These guys had a vested personal interest and ideological interest in smearing Trump,' said a source of Fusion
- Fusion GPS previously stated: 'Any claim that Fusion GPS arranged or facilitated this meeting in any way is absolutely false'
- The Enquirer is owned by Trump friend David Pecker
Read on!!
Racial Division, Made Possible by Viewers Like You | Manhattan Institute
Racial Division, Made Possible by Viewers Like You | Manhattan Institute:
"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is pushing identity politics—except at pledge time.
After the Trump administration proposed eliminating federal funding for public broadcasting, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee cited the plan in a fundraising pitch.
The DCCC quickly backed off its position—a partisan appeal doesn’t help public broadcasting’s cause—but the incident is telling.
It’s no secret that NPR and PBS lean liberal.
Less appreciated is the extent to which Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) grants are organized around an idea central to the modern Democratic Party: identity politics.
The CPB annually receives a $445 million federal appropriation to support public television and public radio.
Most of this money goes to local stations, which pay dues to PBS and NPR for programming rights.
Yet some $97 million of the federal money is distributed as direct programming grants, much of it to independent producers.
This money is meant to support TV and radio programming, as well as educational projects that otherwise might not be commercially viable.
Note that individual grants are not approved by the corporation’s board, which is made up of presidential appointees.
Much of this money goes to the children’s programming that makes PBS popular.
But millions go to nonfiction documentary programming made by independent producers, and that’s where the focus on identity politics becomes clear..."
"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is pushing identity politics—except at pledge time.
After the Trump administration proposed eliminating federal funding for public broadcasting, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee cited the plan in a fundraising pitch.
The DCCC quickly backed off its position—a partisan appeal doesn’t help public broadcasting’s cause—but the incident is telling.It’s no secret that NPR and PBS lean liberal.
Less appreciated is the extent to which Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) grants are organized around an idea central to the modern Democratic Party: identity politics.
The CPB annually receives a $445 million federal appropriation to support public television and public radio.
Most of this money goes to local stations, which pay dues to PBS and NPR for programming rights.
Yet some $97 million of the federal money is distributed as direct programming grants, much of it to independent producers.
This money is meant to support TV and radio programming, as well as educational projects that otherwise might not be commercially viable.
Note that individual grants are not approved by the corporation’s board, which is made up of presidential appointees.
Much of this money goes to the children’s programming that makes PBS popular.
But millions go to nonfiction documentary programming made by independent producers, and that’s where the focus on identity politics becomes clear..."
24 Turncoat Republicans Who Shamefully Want The Military To Pay For Transgender Surgeries - I Have The Truth
24 Turncoat Republicans Who Shamefully Want The Military To Pay For Transgender Surgeries - I Have The Truth:"Here is the list of the turncoat Republicans who voted for this monstrous move. You will not be surprised to find that most of them are from the east and west coasts and not the heartland of America:"
Newspaper Cites ‘Cuts’ in Case for City Tax Hike — But Spending Is Up, Not Down [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Newspaper Cites ‘Cuts’ in Case for City Tax Hike — But Spending Is Up, Not Down [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In a news article last week, The Times Herald newspaper in Port Huron described in dire terms the consequences for the city if voters don’t approve two local property tax hikes on Aug. 8.
According to the article, not approving the tax hikes would mean reductions in police and fire protection as well as “no city pools, no funding for parks and recreation programs” or a sports and concert venue.
The article stated that in the past three years, “the city has reduced government spending by $3 million by reducing staff and privatizing some services, among other actions.”
The city of Port Huron is spending more in 2017 than it spent three years ago.
This is true of overall spending and spending from the city’s general fund, which covers day-to-day salary and operating expenses.
But as often happens when municipal finance is in the news, spending reductions in one area are portrayed as cuts to the overall budget even though spending in other areas has risen by a greater amount, and overall spending is up.
Port Huron provides an example.
In the past three years, the city’s overall spending rose from $25.1 million in 2014 to $27.9 million in 2016.
The general fund budget rose $4.1 million over the period..."
"In a news article last week, The Times Herald newspaper in Port Huron described in dire terms the consequences for the city if voters don’t approve two local property tax hikes on Aug. 8.
According to the article, not approving the tax hikes would mean reductions in police and fire protection as well as “no city pools, no funding for parks and recreation programs” or a sports and concert venue.
The article stated that in the past three years, “the city has reduced government spending by $3 million by reducing staff and privatizing some services, among other actions.”
This is true of overall spending and spending from the city’s general fund, which covers day-to-day salary and operating expenses.
But as often happens when municipal finance is in the news, spending reductions in one area are portrayed as cuts to the overall budget even though spending in other areas has risen by a greater amount, and overall spending is up.
Port Huron provides an example.
In the past three years, the city’s overall spending rose from $25.1 million in 2014 to $27.9 million in 2016.
The general fund budget rose $4.1 million over the period..."
Half of Americans have diabetes or a high risk for it — and many of them are unaware - LA Times
Half of Americans have diabetes or a high risk for it — and many of them are unaware - LA Times
"Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and … diabetes.
That’s right.
"Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and … diabetes.
That’s right.
The metabolic condition is about as American as you can get, according to a new national report card on diabetes released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report shows that nearly half of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, which puts them at high risk for the condition.
The report shows that nearly half of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, which puts them at high risk for the condition.
A good number of these folks haven’t been diagnosed and don’t even realize their predicament.
People with diabetes have too much sugar in their blood.
People with diabetes have too much sugar in their blood.
If the disease isn’t controlled, they can wind up with heart disease, nerve damage, kidney problems, eye damage and other serious health problems.
The new report combines data from the CDC, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Indian Health Service and the Census Bureau.
The new report combines data from the CDC, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Indian Health Service and the Census Bureau.
Here’s a numerical look at what they reveal about diabetes in America.
- 30.3 million-The number of people in the U.S. who had diabetes in 2015.
- 9.4%-The percentage of the U.S. population that has diabetes. That’s nearly 1 in 10
- 84.1 million-The number of U.S. adults who have prediabetes, a condition characterized by elevated blood sugar that puts people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. That works out to 34% of American adults with prediabetes..."
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